"Tk, you do realize that the unemployment statistics include all of the still out of work folks who's benefits have now expired, so they're no longer counted as being unemployed... right?"

Yes, What's your point. the effective unemployment rate is abot 2.5 % if you wanted to remove seaonsal workers etc. People truely between jobs. Restaurant employee's in tourist markets for example lay off in the winter and file for UE and go work as ski instructors in Aspen for cash or go to Coasta rica and rent jetski's off a platform for $250 a day for their HS and college buddies. I have two people I went to college with that do this.


168k new jobs at McDonalds and Burger King ain't gonna get too many folks the American dream.

Standard liberal drivel.

If everything is so peachy... why are good paying manufacturing jobs (like GM for example) still disappearing at an alarming rate?

Because of people like you 4 Salt


Because 99% of the worlds populationis willing to work cheaper.

Lets just take the Minimum wage increase in this state as a example of some of the issues. My Bro in law is in this boat right now as a manufacture. He hires minimum wage employees to stuff parts in little bags and ship them to clients. The minimum wage increase in this state that just took effect just pushed all of those jobs to China. He has no choice he is locked into 5 year price contracts with Boeing and Micron, Intel etc.

Who pushed that legislation?

Lets take another example. A few years ago Calif. enacted a similar boost in the minimum wage. Peior to that 85% of the garlic produced and consumed in the US came from calif. A year after the wage increase 90% of the garlic consumed in the US came from China. How much garlic do you eat 4 salt? Did you even have a clue how many jobs where lost so your price stayed the same?

Who pushed that legislation?

The dollar in your wallet is sending jobs over seas everytime you hand it to someone that is not supplying you with 100% made in America goods.

How did you do this Christmas Season 4 salt did you hand out only American made goods?